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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko suggests creating a mechanism under the UN Security Council to punish those guilty of the downing of flight MH17 in Donbas on July 17, 2014. ”To my mind, the most efficient way would be to create a mechanism under the aegis of the UN Security Council to bring the perpetrators to justice,” the president said at...

Ukraine has received from the U.S. State Department a diplomatic note on loan guarantees worth $1 billion, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wrote on Facebook. ”Ukraine has received from the U.S. State Department a diplomatic note regarding the loan guarantees worth $1 billion,” the Ukrainian president wrote. According to a copy of the...

The Communications Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine has confirmed to UNIAN the detention in Moscow of the former head of the Ukrainian capital`s Traffic Police Mykola Makarenko. ”We have a confirmation from Moscow. [He was] detained at Domodedovo airport back on September 21. We have sent the papers for his arrest, but...

Ukrainian envoy to the Trilateral Contact Group`s security subgroup Yevhen Marchuk has said that to understand the process and the essence of the Minsk talks, everyone needs to say goodbye to the illusory world. ”Even when there is no final decision yet about the end of war in Donbas and the withdrawal of Russian troops, all steps, and agreements...

The largest debt has been accumulated at the enterprises in Luhansk (25.2%), Donetsk (18.1%) and Kharkiv (10.1%) regions. Wage arrears across Ukraine in August 2016 decreased by 7% compared to July, amounting to UAH 1.9 billion as of September 1, as reported by the State Statistics Service. The debt to workers of economically active enterprises...

White House spokesman Josh Earnest has said at a news briefing that the United States does not rule out introducing additional sanctions against Russia over its actions in Syria, also noting intensification of attacks by the Assad army and Russian forces, Deutsche Welle reports. ”What we have seen from the Assad regime and the Russians is a...

The Joint Investigation Team during its research of numerous bits of evidence found out the precise route used to bring the Buk air defense system from Russia into Ukraine before it downed flight MH17, according to an UNIAN correspondent. The investigation came to a conclusion that the MH17 was hit by a Buk 9M38 series missile, launched by a Buk...

The Kremlin has declined to say whether Russia is ready to give those responsible in shooting down the Malaysian Boeing flight MH17 if they are named in the report of the Joint Investigation Group. Asked whether Moscow is ready to hand over for trial in the West its citizens if they are accused by the international investigation, Russian...

The State Fiscal Service of Ukraine (SFSU) in 2016 has accrued tax liabilities on the tax on real property other than land for over 350,000 individuals. According to the SFSU`s website, tax payers will pay to the budget tax for nearly 454,000 residential properties, taxed at the rates specified in 2015. The citizens have been handed over 440,000...

Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 35 times in the past 24 hours, including 23 times in the Mariupol sector, six times in the Donetsk sector and six times in the Luhansk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. In the Luhansk sector, the enemy...